Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Leaves of Grass (1872)
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(13) Take my leaves, America! take them, South, and take
them, North!
Make welcome for them everywhere, for they are your
own offspring;
Surround them, East and West! for they would sur-
round you;
And you precedents! connect lovingly with them, for
they connect lovingly with you.
(14) I conn'd old times:
I sat studying at the feet of the great masters:
Now, if eligible, O that the great masters might return
and study me!
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(15) In the name of These States, shall I scorn the an-
tique?
Why These are the children of the antique, to jus-
tify it.